NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (center right) and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talk after the meeting with he media in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday. (Mykola Lazarenko/Pool Photo via AP )Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday told the country’s security council that staying out of the NATO alliance was a “criminal” policy that his government is ready to reverse.More than 8,000 people have died in Ukraine’s fight against separatist rebels in the east since April 2014. Russia backed the rebels, fearing that the pro-Western course of the new Kiev government would make it a NATO ally.”The decision on the non-alliance policy which …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post